#favosite

[vividblues]

That’s fossil coral!!! You can email your local museum with questions or even take it in and show em + get to see the back rooms sometimes !!

[soraniyan]

a fossil beehive？ 🐝⋆︎*ﾟ∗

a coral, called favosite？ 𓇼 ⋆*❁*𓆡𓆉𓆜

I found a strange object in my yard… |ू･ω･` )

「白い追憶」

暑いので 日陰に咲く花 ドクダミを

謎の物体と共に お届けいたします。

この謎の物体は もともと庭に

コロンと転がっていたもので

蜂の巣の化石？かな…？くらいに

思っていたのですが

『蜂の巣の化石』で、調べても

何もわからなくて

代わりに これに似た

『蜂の巣珊瑚』なる物の写真を

発見しました。

蜂の巣みたいな珊瑚があるんですよ。

驚きです。

でも、これが その

蜂の巣珊瑚なのかどうかは 不明です。

ちなみに一緒に写っている

ドクダミの花言葉は「白い追憶」 と

いうのだそうです。

[thatgeographychick]

Some beauties I found in Indiana! Mostly fossilized coral, favosites I believe.

[megansplants]

Favosite (Honeycomb Coral) -- Lake Michigan

[vividblues]

Honeycomb favosite coral fossil coated in druzy quartz 😍

“Favosites, like most coral, thrived in warm, shallow sunlit seas. They were a colony type of coral forming colorful quilt work reefs. They fed by filtering microscopic plankton with their stinging tentacles. They were most prevalent during the Silurian and Devonian time slots, but date as far back as the Ordovician and forward to the Permian between 251-488 mya. That’s over 200 million years of living on earth … amazing!”

https://fossillady.wordpress.com/tag/honeycomb-coral/

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[vividblues]

Beautiful favosite coral fossil found this morning

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[vividblues]

Coral fossil I found along the NJ shore shown natural/flash

[vividblues]

Coral and coral fossil my obsession